A study, led by cardiologists at UI Hospitals and Clinics, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, and the University of Missouri in Kansas City, finds that survival in patients who experience a cardiac arrest in the hospital has increased significantly over the past decade.

UI scientists have discovered a new cause of neonatal hydrocephalus. The team discovered that cell-signaling defects disrupt immature brain cells involved in normal brain development. Treatment with lithium bypasses the defect in mice and reduces the hydrocephalus.

On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the UI Carver College of Medicine will host a program, "Personal Genetic Information: Its Power, Promise, and Problems," discussing research that will shape the future of personalized medicine and how that might change the care patients receive.

74-year-old Roger Batchelder of La Porte City, Iowa, has been a patient at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics since Halloween, when a tree-cutting accident resulted in the complete removal of his right hand and wrist.

After having a lumpectomy in 1995 to remove a cancerous lump in her left breast, Beverly Mueller is opting to utilize a new procedure - Intra-operative Radiation Therapy - to remove pre-cancer cells that were found in her right breast in March.

Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD, as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.